Valentin Gaft
Biography
Valentin Yosifovich Gaft was born on September 2, 1935 to Ukrainian parents recently relocated to Moscow. Gaft entered the Moscow Theater School in 1953 at age 18 and made his film debut three years later in Mikhail Romm’s “Murder on Dante Street”. Over a half century of performing Valentine Gaft has been associated with the Mossovet and Leninsky Komsomol Theater troupes and the Sovremennik Theater which Gaft joined in 1969 and where he continues to work to this day. Gaft was named a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984 and has authored series of highly acidic epigrams satirizing members of the Russian film and theater communities. ----- Content From 12 Presskit http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (42)
The Chosen Ones
as himself
2018
The Scoundrel
2017
Четвертый
2016
Milky Way
2016
Breaking The Vicious Circle
2014
The Story of an Old Woman
2014
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
2013
Iron Mountain
as Preobrazhensky
2013
Fiery River
2013
Wings
as Byvaly (Voice)
2012
One Day of Zhora Vladimov
2011
Равняется одному Гафту
as Self
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
as Wise prisoner
2010
Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком
2010
The Music of Life
as Self (archive footage)
2009
The Book of Masters
as Magic mirror
2009
New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
2008
12
as Juror #4
2007
The Husband, the Wife and the Lover
2007
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
as политтехнолог Борис Глебович
2007
The Master and Margarita
as Woland
2006
Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
as Oleh Kostiantynovych
2003
Watch Without Hands
2000
House for the Rich
as Roman Rumyanov
2000
Tender Age
as Саледон старший (известный скульптор-диссидент)
2000
Old Hags
as General
2000
Sky in Diamonds
1999
Sympathy Seeker
as Magician
1997
The Career of Arturo Ui
1996
I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
1994
I want to go to America
1993
Encore, Once More Encore!
as Fyodor Vasilyevich Vinogradov
1992
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
as Джордж
1992
The Terrorist
1991
Футболист
1991
Lost in Siberia
as Beria
1991
Promised Heaven
as President
1991
Night Fun
as Езепов
1991
Mister Perrichon's Trip
1990
The Suicide
as конферансье
1990
The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
as Beriya
1989
The Visit
as Alfred III
1989
TV Shows (8)
10 самых...
as Self (archive footage)
2016
The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
2011
Morpekhi
2011
Мастер и Маргарита
2006
Nine Unknowns
as Viktor Sevidov - britanskiy millioner
2006
The Master and Margarita
as Иосиф Каифа, человек во френче
2005
On the Other Side of the Wolves
2002
Ночные забавы
as Езепов
1993